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J. H. ENIGH.

MINERS CAN.

No. 344,956. 7 Patented July 6, 1886.-

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NITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOSEPH H. ENIOH, OF MAHANOY CITY, PENNSYLVANIA.

MINERS CAN.

SPECIFICATION forming part. of Letters Patent No. 344,956, dated July 6, 1886.

Application filed March 27,1856. Serial No. 196,867.

To all whom it may concern/.

Be it known that I, JOSEPH H. ENIOH, a citizen of the United States of America,residing at Mahanoy City, in the county of Schuylkill and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Miners Cans, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings.

The object of this improvement is a can adapted to miners use, made of distinct sheetmetal parts so constructed and connected together as to strengthen and protect thejoints and also the bottom from wear and injury from other causes. the construction illustrated in the drawings herewith filed as part hereof, in which the same letters of reference denote the same parts in the different views.

Figure 1 is a side elevation of a miners can embodying the features of my improvement. Fig. 2 is a vertical section of the same, taken through the center thereot'. Fig. 3 is a see tional detail representation. Fig. 4 is a perspective representation of the bottom of the can.

A is thecan-wall,theupper andlower edges, 13 B,of which are braced by wires 1) I), around Which the edges of the wall A are turned in an annular manner,as shown.

Ois the bottom, provided with a vertical flange, c, and made to fit closely the inside of the can-wall. v

D is the top piece or breast of the can, also provided with a vertical flange, (Z, and made to fit closely the inside of the can-wall. The

top piece, D, is also provided with an outward flange, d, for the reception of a mouthpiece, E.

The bottom piece, 0, is set into the lower end of the wall sufficiently to have an elevation above the extreme lower end or base of the wall, and is soldered in position substantially as shown, for a purpose hereinafter set forth.

These results are attained by The breast-pieceD is setinto the upper end of the wall sufficiently to b ing the corner of its flange below the top of the wall, substantially in the position shown, in order that a recess may be formed by such connection, as shown at F F in Fig. 2, for the reception of solder, by means of which the position of the piece is secured and additional strength-there by given to thejoint.

The mouth-piece E is soldered .in the ordinary manner to the breast-piece flange (Z.

' G represents an eye plate, with which the can may be provided at each side, for connection with abreast-strap for suspending the can from the shoulder.

By reason of the bottom 0 being elevated above the base of the can, as shown, the body of the bottom and thejoint also will be protected from wear by friction with objects on which the can maybe placed or movcdas occasion may require. The wires in the edges of the wall A will stiffen the entire body'of the same, and additional strength will be given thereto by the flanges ot' the parts 0 D, and a blow on or contact of the body of the can with other objects, as will frequently be the case, instead of breaking the solder and causing leakage, will tend to drive the parts closer together.

. Having explained the features of my improvement, what I claim as new, and desireto secure by- Letters Patent, is-

In a sheet-metal can,the wall provided with outwardly wired ends, and the bottom and breast piece provided with perpendicular flanges set into and soldered to the inside of the wall, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

' In testimony whereof I affix my signatu re in presence of two witnesses.

JOSEPH H. ENlOH.

Witnesses:

J OHN LAVELLE, OHAs. SNYDER. 

